A jet goes blind over the Baltic, and the problem is suddenly much larger than one aircraft. An RAF plane carrying British Defense Secretary John Healey last week lost GPS for a three-hour flight after he visited British troops in Estonia, a fellow NATO ally. . Pilots used another navigation system and officials said it was unclear whether Healey's plane had been deliberately targeted. The plane landed safely -- which is precisely why the episode matters. No missile had been fired, no NATO border had been crossed in the old-fashioned sense.
Yet the alliance still had to decide whether anything serious had happened. NATO's answer to incidents like this has long been calibrated in Washington. It is typically measured, lawyerly, slow to escalate.
U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.
Carroll, whose advice column ran in the women's magazine Elle from 1993 to 2019, has reportedly accused at least six prior men of raping her, including former CBS President Les Moonves. Her bizarre social-media history also included posts making light of sexual trauma and even asking her followers if they found Trump sexually attractive. Trump was prevented from submitting that evidence in his trial. Read more
The Department of Justice filedlawsuitsagainst Maine, Washington, Oregon, and Massachusetts challenging their policies of denying confidential license plates to federal law-enforcement officers (e.g. DHS and ICE agents).
The sinister Trump junta wants to protect ICE thugs from lawsuits and an angry public today or after the junta finally falls
A 69-year-old man known in his San Diego County neighborhood as the owner of the "Trump house" died from injuries suffered when he was brutally assaulted outside of his home. Kerry George Sheron of Escondido was hospitalized in critical condition last week after he was attacked outside his MAGA-themed residence at East Mission Avenue and Buchanan Street around 2 p.m., according to the city Police Department. The alleged attacker, Thomas Caleb Butler, 32, fled on foot and was apprehended that day.
A bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges on Wednesday asked the judge who oversaw President Trump's remarkable lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service to reopen the case and conduct an inquiry into whether the hasty deal to resolve it could be challenged as an act of fraud.
A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to implement his executive order tightening mail-in voting, slapping down Democrats' arguments for now that federal efforts to police voter rolls with citizenship checks was illegal.
Faux TV tumor MAGA "economist" Larry Kudlow, a thrice-married former cocaine addict and recovering alcoholic who converted from Judaism to Catholicism, denigrated the popular and effective NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) as a "stupid kid" and a "Stalinist," after His Honor introduced a bold new plan to create hundreds of thousands of rent-stabilized apartments for struggling New Yorkers.
Why NYC Roundly Rejected Good-for-Nothings Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams"It's just pure communist, pure Stalinism," 12-step program useless dinosaur Larry Kudlow bleated on TV.
On the first night of Eid celebrations and family visits in the Gaza Strip, Israeli fighter jets carried out intense air strikes targeting a residential building in central Gaza City, killing seven, including three women and a child, wounding 18 others. Meanwhile, Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz has advanced plans to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip through "voluntary emigration" which would take place "at the proper time and in the proper manner."
Israeli Settlers Merrily Celebrating Deaths of Muslims
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is moving to have his wife, Christie, hired as a Special Government Employee (SGE) which would allow her to fly free with him on federal flights. Former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem hired her rumored lover, Corey Lewandowski, in the same manner. With this sinecure, Mrs Christie Mullin could also earn $130,000 per year.
Mr and Mrs Mullet Wedding Portrait
Oil prices have jumped after the US carried out new attacks on Iran, targeting a military site in Bandar Abbas, a strategic port city. The US Central Command (Centcom) said its forces also shot down four Iranian drones "that posed a threat around the Strait of Hormuz". Global oil benchmark Brent rose by 3.75% to $97.83 (73.15) a barrel, while US-traded crude was 4% higher at $92.22. Read more
Back-to-back-to-back within six months, Nevada US Army National Guardsman PFC Mace Veit (19) graduated from Ranger, Airborne, Air Assault, and Pathfinder schools all without injury or problem. When PFC Veit catches his breath, and if his unit has the funds to send him, he can attend the newly-reconstituted US Army Jungle Warfare School (18 days) in Panama. This Cavalry Scout (Honor Graduate) should easily pass the rigorous qualification for the sought-after Expert Infantryman Badge (EIB).
Rangers Lead the WayI would deploy with PFC Mace Veit.
A former US government official has been arrested after FBI investigators found hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40 million in his Virginia home. David Rush made several requests to the US government to receive the bars for "work-related expenses" over the past year, according to court documents. He has been charged with criminal theft of public money in a complaint filed last week. Read more
The US Navy commissioned the last of its 35 littoral combat ships, the USS Cleveland, earlier this month at a pier in its namesake Ohio city. "Steel. Strength. Power," acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao posted on social media to mark the occasion. Critics of the littoral combat ship (LCS) program had some other descriptions. "Easy meat," said one. "An experiment that didn't work," said another. Read more
The way some musicians play, you think they'll never die. Theodore "Sonny" Rollins was such a man: A saxophonist revered for his huge tone and seemingly inexhaustible improvisations. Rollins died Monday afternoon at his Woodstock, N.Y. home at the age of 95. Rollins was a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, a recipient of a Kennedy Center honor and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts. And he was the very incarnation of a modern jazz musician. His art was his life. "All these prizes are nice, I appreciate them," he told NPR in 2007. "I don't go crazy about them -- you have to do your work whether you're recognized or not. The real deal is doing it the best you can do it and that's it. That's its own reward."
WASHINGTON " President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran wrongly assumed he would retreat from his demands during negotiations to avoid a long standoff ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Speaking at a Cabinet meeting on May 27, Trump said the Iranian regime "thought they were going to outwait me" regarding a peace deal.
"'We'll outwait him. He's got the midterms,'" Trump said. "I don't care about the midterms. Look what happened last night. That was the prelude to the midterms."
